Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned Date: 1 Jun 2025 12:57:27 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 15 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <03gqqj562r4vi0kpi2vl8flsi59jsbot56@4ax.com> <101dplj$q5st$1@dont-email.me> <101f6jd$t5j$1@panix2.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de rwbSML9Jmkp65vHZ4zrHvQx7LEvj3VqHQLjv8h3CotZdSW Cancel-Lock: sha1:7lZtMVvNxCHE8G1cfXrpjrjceMk= sha256:9gVR7dV121VyH/SsRYEb6xKeELGw2W3FlzQKifUDMjo= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2232 Robert Woodward wrote or quoted: >It is emergent behavior. If you are going to call that supernatural, >then chemistry is supernatural also. Emergent behavior can end up looking a lot like something out of left field. Saying something is "emergent" might just be a roundabout way of saying, "We don't really get it". But figuring out where the "invisible hand of the market" comes from is still way easier than wrapping your head around how consciousness shows up given what we know about physics, chemistry, and biology.